THRUSTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrusting mean? 

• THRUSTING (noun)
  The noun THRUSTING has 1 sense:

1. a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)

  Familiarity information: THRUSTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRUSTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

jab; jabbing; poke; poking; thrust; thrusting

Context example:

he made a thrusting motion with his fist

Hypernyms ("thrusting" is a kind of...):

gesture (motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling)

Derivation:

thrust (make a thrusting forward movement)

 Context examples 

She turned her back, thrusting her fingers into her ears.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

As the sounds of the ship thrusting herself through the waves were hurled back upon us by the fog, so were one’s thoughts.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Beside him on a green bank there sat a small man with a solemn face, and a great bundle of papers of all colors thrusting forth from the scrip which lay beside him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scarps formed as Mercury’s interior cooled; the planet’s shrinking was accommodated by the crustal rocks being pushed together, thrusting them upward along fault lines.

(‘Great Valley’ Found on Mercury, NASA)

He took all manner of risks, resolutely thrusting his little weazened face into the frost and struggling on from dim dawn to dark.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Keep out of the way," said Mr. Rochester, thrusting her aside: "she has no knife now, I suppose, and I'm on my guard."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Thrusting in my head between the stems, I found myself gazing at a fleshless skull.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There it came now, the god's hand, cunning to hurt, thrusting out at him, descending upon his head.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I then fastened my handkerchief to a stick I usually carried, and thrusting it up the hole, waved it several times in the air, that if any boat or ship were near, the seamen might conjecture some unhappy mortal to be shut up in the box.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)